Terra Security, a pioneer in Agentic Offensive Security, has announced the appointment of Anna Sarnek as Vice President of Business & Strategy. Sarnek, who has served as a strategic advisor to the company for the past year, will focus on accelerating ecosystem-led growth and scaling Terra's AI-native offensive security platform through deepened partnerships and strategic alignment.
Terra Security appointed Anna Sarnek as Vice President of Business & Strategy to lead ecosystem-led growth and strategic partnerships.
Sarnek brings over 15 years of cybersecurity experience, most recently leading Cyber Startup and Venture Capital Business Development at AWS.
She has served as a strategic advisor to Terra for the past year, helping shape strategic direction and the company's partnership with AWS.
In her new role, Sarnek will focus on product innovation, growth strategy, and industry partnerships across technology companies, MSSPs, and consulting firms.
Terra is investing early in ecosystem relationships, challenging the conventional startup playbook that often delays hyperscaler and channel investment.
The appointment reflects Terra's conviction that AI-native security represents a new category where the company is positioned to lead.
Anna Sarnek joins Terra's leadership team after more than 15 years of experience spanning cybersecurity, enterprise IT, and cloud partnerships. At AWS, she most recently led Cyber Startup and Venture Capital Business Development, where she managed relationships with key cyber investors and priority founders to help early and growth-stage companies build strong foundations for scale. Her background positions her to bridge the gap between Terra and its stakeholders, ensuring the company's strategies remain closely aligned with evolving market demands.
“Anna has been instrumental in building Terra behind the scenes since last May,” said Shahar Peled, cofounder and CEO of Terra Security. “She brings a deep understanding of our product, customers, and partners, which will help her scale the company thoughtfully and strategically. More importantly, she shares our conviction that AI-native security represents an entirely new category, one where Terra is uniquely positioned to lead.”
As Vice President of Business & Strategy, Sarnek will complement Terra's organic momentum by focusing on product innovation, growth strategy, and industry partnerships. Drawing on her consulting and strategic business development background, she will orchestrate alignment across Terra's business units and partners, ensuring that platform strategy, partner feedback, go-to-market execution, and long-term growth move forward in lockstep.
“Channel partnerships used to be deeply strategic, but the explosion of vendors has pushed many relationships toward more transactional motions,” said Anna Sarnek, VP of Business & Strategy at Terra Security. “We need to return to the kind of strategic alignment that originally made the channel so effective, building best-of-breed solutions and cohesive platform narratives alongside our partners rather than operating in silos. It’s also time to challenge the conventional startup playbook that delays hyperscaler and channel investment. Strong partnerships compound over time, and if you wait until later funding stages, you forfeit that advantage. Terra is already seeing the benefits of starting early.”
Terra's approach reflects a belief that modern security outcomes require alignment across people, process, and technology. By investing early in trusted ecosystem relationships—from hyperscalers to leading consulting and red teaming firms—Terra is establishing a foundation for comprehensive solutions that resonate with CISOs, executive decision-makers, and frontline practitioners.
“Terra represents a category with materially different value,” Sarnek added. “We see a clear path to building a company that defines Agentic Offensive Security.”
About Terra Security
Terra Security provides Agentic AI-Powered continuous penetration testing aligned to code changes and evolving attack surfaces, combining a swarm of trained AI Agents with human supervision for safety and control. The company works with Fortune 500 organizations to ensure every attack surface is covered across the web, AI, internal apps, APIs, mobile, networks, and the cloud. Winner of the 2025 CrowdStrike/AWS/NVIDIA Cybersecurity Accelerator, and backed by SYN Ventures, Felicis, Lama Partners, SVCI, Underscore VC, Dell Technologies Capital, and Capital One Ventures. The company is based in the U.S. and Tel Aviv.
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